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Amazon CloudWatch vs Azure Cost Management comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.6
Amazon CloudWatch customer service is praised for expertise and availability, though navigating support can be tedious; premium support offers faster resolution.
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Room For Improvement

Sentiment score
7.0
Amazon CloudWatch users are dissatisfied with pricing, UI complexity, inadequate log functionalities, and seek better integration, reporting, and monitoring features.
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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
8.4
Amazon CloudWatch is highly rated for its scalability, handling high volumes and diverse organizational needs consistently across multiple accounts.
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Setup Cost

No sentiment score available
Amazon CloudWatch pricing varies widely, from as low as $25 to over $300 monthly, depending on usage and integration.
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Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.6
Amazon CloudWatch is highly stable and reliable, with minor UI lags on large data, rarely affecting overall performance.
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Valuable Features

Sentiment score
8.8
Amazon CloudWatch offers real-time monitoring, alerts, analytics, and customizable dashboards, integrated seamlessly with AWS for enhanced security and functionality.
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Categories and Ranking

Amazon CloudWatch
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.8
Number of Reviews
44
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (13th), Log Management (11th), Cloud Monitoring Software (9th)
Azure Cost Management
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
43
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Cost Management (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Cloud Infrastructure and Tools solutions, they serve different purposes. Amazon CloudWatch is designed for Cloud Monitoring Software and holds a mindshare of 4.6%, down 5.9% compared to last year.
Azure Cost Management, on the other hand, focuses on Cloud Cost Management, holds 12.2% mindshare, down 15.6% since last year.
Cloud Monitoring Software
Cloud Cost Management
 

Featured Reviews

Rasanpreet Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
Reliable AWS monitoring and logging
The choice of logging solution should always be determined by the specific business requirements. It is crucial to align the logging strategy with what type of logs are needed and how they should be used. There are instances where we require custom solutions to retrieve logs, especially application logs that may not be easily accessible through CloudWatch or similar services. When we heavily rely on AWS native services, CloudWatch is indeed a robust choice. However, in certain scenarios, we might need integration capabilities with other tools, and if they can incorporate such features, it would enhance overall logging capabilities. I would rate it eight out of ten.
Eduardo Sanfrutos - PeerSpot reviewer
A good, but limited cost information solution with strong analytics but requiring more flexibility in its reporting functionality
We use this solution to provide various cost information from across our organization We find the analytics available via this solution to be very useful, as it allows us to easily see detailed cost information for each of our various subscription elements. We would like to see more flexibility…
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
18%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Manufacturing Company
8%
University
5%
Computer Software Company
15%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Energy/Utilities Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon CloudWatch?
In general, Amazon CloudWatch is cheaper compared to Dynatrace. However, there are potential costs to be mindful of, like running a log query that returns trillions of bytes of data.
What needs improvement with Amazon CloudWatch?
There is room for improvement in setting up custom metrics in CloudWatch. Adding conditional expressions would enhance its functionality.
What do you like most about Azure Cost Management?
Gives visibility into the cost of cloud-based solutions.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure Cost Management?
I rate the tool's pricing a six out of ten - the price could be lower.
What needs improvement with Azure Cost Management?
I'd like to see improvements in tracking billing and costs. It would be helpful to have alerts generated by instance and location. We use the cloud for multiple programs, and it's difficult to segr...
 

Also Known As

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Microsoft Azure Cost Management, Cloudyn
 

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Sample Customers

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